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Art Quotes
"The artist cannot hold back; it is impossible, because writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and the occasional stabbing joys that come from being part of the human drama."
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"It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us."
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"Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them."
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"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual."
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"Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own."
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"So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy."
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"Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself."
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"Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."
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"I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form."
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"Motherhood in all its guises and permutations is more art than science."
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"And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music."
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"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."
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"Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be."
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"Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity."
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"I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration."
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"The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art."
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"Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it."
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"Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology."
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"I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history."
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"I've been doing it all along, ever since I got out of art school."
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"When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul."
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"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."
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